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Howard K. Falk, 
Dept. Social Science, 
McGill University, 
Montreal, Que. 


Official Organ of 

THE FIFTH SUNDAY MEETING ASSOCIATION OFCANADA 



Vol. I — No. 36 


MONTREAL, DECEMBER 6th, 1919 


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j THE TARIFF BOARD i 


T HE demand for thousands 
of extra copies of our 
ijssue of Nov. 29th., from 
all parts of the country, has 
simply swamped us. So far as 
we were able we filled the 
demands for all who seemed 
interested in the process of the 
campaign for the Tariff Board, 
but we had to disappoint 
many seekers for the paper. 
Under the circumstances, there- 
fore, it seems advisable to re- 
capitulate. For the benefit of 
those who wish a complete rec- 
oord of the names of the or- 
ganizations which debated and 
pronounced in favor of a Tar- 
iff Board the names which ap- 
peared in last week \s issue are 
reprinted in this number in 
smaller type. 

In our issue of Nov. 29th. we 
gave reasons for our support of 


the Tariff Board as against the 
slip-shod and unsatisfactory 
method of general tariff revi- 
sion. We made it perfectly 
clear that Canadian workmen 
no longer intend to be victims of 
political jugglery. We are tir- 
ed unto death of being thrown 
out of our positions and jobs 
at election time to make a Ro- 
man Holiday for oattling pol- 
itical parties. We are disgust- 
witli the procedure of influenc- 
ing our votes under pain of un- 
employment if the protective 
tariff party should be defeat- 
ed. 

We hold that the fiscal pol- 
icy is of the greatest import- 
ance to workers throughout the 
Dominion, and if a board is to 
be established we strongly ad- 
vocate that a labor represent- 


ative shall be one of its mem- 
bers. 

In this issue we should like 
to point out further reasons 
why we advocate the Tariff 
Board. Everyone knows that 
the large manufacturing inter- 
ests who have close associations 
and friendship with party lead-; 
ers experience no difficulty in! 
securing protective tariff. But I 
with the small manufacturer | 
who cannot afford to maintain I 
a lobby it is quite a different) 
story. So with the manufac- 
turer who is combining new 
and old processes of produc- 
tion. In the helter-skelter-go- 
as-you-please-pot-luck policy of 
the general tariff revision he 
simply has to take his chances 
Now it is the small manu- 
facturer the workman desires 
to see expand and develop, 
because expansion carries with 
it a greater employment of la- 
bor where the personal touch is 
not lost in the magnitude of 
the enterprise. 

The flexibility of the propos- 


ed Tariff Board is another 
important point greatly in its 
favor. If it is found upon invest- 
igation that the protective tar- 
iff now given industries is fash- 
ioning a monopoly the board 
can recommend a reduction. 
If on the contrary, it is found 
that some of the smaller indus- 
tries need a greater measure of 
protection in order to prosper 
and expand, ana employ a 
greater number of Canadian 
workmen, then the Board can 
recommend a greater measure 
of protection. 

Suppose that it were found 
that certain goods could not 
be manufactured to the advan- 
tage of the consuming public ; 
in other words, the price at 
which the goods could be sold 
with higher tariff protection 
would be prohibitive. In such a 
case the Board might then give 
judgment to entirely remove 
the tariff and allow the mer- 
chandise to enter for the ben- 
efit of the Canadian consum- 

( Continued on page 4) 



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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


December 6th, 1919 




Sir Robert Borden has now re- 
turned to the Capital and resumed 
his duties as Premier of the Domi- 
nion. He is reported to be looking 
well and to have completely recover- 
ed from that serious state of health 
which led Sir George Foster to 
describe him to a mournful Coali- 
tion caucus as “broken in health, 
broken in nerve and broken in 
spirits”. He was now a variety of 
problems to tackle, tlie first of 
which ought to be the filling of 
the vacant Ministry of Customs. 

The task constitutes quite a pro- 
blem in itself. The new Minister 
ought to have three qualifications. 
He ought to be a Liberal-Unionist; 
he ought to hail from New Bruns- 
wick and he ought to have a seat 
in which he can be reelected. There 
are three Liberal-Unionists avail- 
able in New Brunswick, Mr. Log- 
gie, Mr. H. H. Maclean, a corpora- 
tion lawyer and a rich lobster can- 
ner, and Mr. Elkin, a rich nail 
manufacturer. Mr. Loggie is old and 
quite unsuited for office; Mr. Mac- 
lean cannot accept the Grand Trunk 
agreement, and Mr. Elkin is too 
voung and inexperienced; moreover, 
in the opinion of many of his fel- 
low-Unionists elevation to office 
would tend to increase the excellent 
opinion they blame Mr. Elkin for 
holding of himself till it became 
unbearable. 


Mr. Loggie has a very narrow 
majority, and while Mr. Elkin had 
a large one, St. John is an uncertain 
seat and the labor element is grow- 
ing strong there. 

So recourse will probably he had 
to a Conservative and everything 
points to the selection of Mr. J. D. 
Hazen, at present Chief -Justice of 
New Brunswick. Mr. Hazen was in 
the Borden Cabinet from 1911 to 
1917; he liked politics and was 
loath to leave them, but room had 
to be made for Mr. Carvell. It is 
understood that he would not be 
•averse to returning to the fray at 
Ottawa, and in that event some 
New Brunswick member would have 
to t>e provided with a job. 

The recent by-election in Carle- 
ton affords a grave warding against 
opening any rural seat in view of 
the amazing growth of the New 
Brunswick farmers’ organization, 
so that the probability is that the 
new Minister would have to run in 
St. John. If Mr. Hazen is taken into 
the Cabinet, he will probably re- 
turn to his old job at the Depart- 
ment of Marine and Fisheries and 
set free Mr. C. C. Ballantyne to 
undertake the Ministry of Cus- 
toms. 

It would be exceedingly gratify- 
ing to the Canadian Manufactur- 
ers’ Association to see one of their 
past presidents in this import- 
ant strategic post and Mr. Ballan- 
tyne own personal views could be 
relied upon not to let the depart- 


ment become a hotbed of free trade 
propaganda. 

Last week a deputation of the 
C.M.A. was in the capital interview- 
ing such of the Cabinet as were 
available. It will be remembered 
that during the anxious times 
around the last Budget, Sir Thomas 
White, in order to pacify and for- 
tify loyal Unionists like Mr. Hen- 
ders, who had free trade pasts and 
graingrower constituencies, circum- 
stances inconsistent with support of 
a protectionist budget, gave a solemn 
promise that before another budget 
was brought down, a committee of 
the Cabinet would constitute itself 
into a Tariff Commission and make 
a careful inquiry into tl*e whole 
fabric of our protectionist system. 

Six months have elapsed since 
that promise was made and there 
is not a sign of the Commission. It 
is apparent, however, that the Cab- 
inet has been giving it consideration. 
The C.M.A. calculates that if the 
settlement of the tariff policy is left 
to the existing Cabinet, they will ap- 
proach it from the view of political 
opportunism and not from what the 
C.M.A. describes as “a sound eco- 
nomic basis”. So they are at the 
idea of a permanent Tariff Com- 
mission, which should occupy the 
position of being outside and above 
politics. Let it be formed at once, 
they say and composed of sane and 
sensible men. 

Ottawa is at present entertain- 
ing a distinguished visitor in fhe 
person of Admiral Lord Jellicoe, 
at one time commander of the 
Grand Fleet. His visit and its pos- 
sible implications demand careful 
attention. The Editor of the “ Ma- 
nitoba Free Press” has lately re 
vealed some of the story behind it. 
Apparently the British Admiralty 
were anxious to secure authority to 
create a central Imperial Navy, to 
which the Dominions should contri- 
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But the four Dominion Premiers 
would have none of it and joined 
in a memorandum laying down the 
principle that each Dominion must 
have its separate naval organiza- 
tion and control it through its own 
Parliament. 

The British Admiralty were still 
of the opinion that they ought to 
have a finger in the pie and it was 
agreed that Lord Jellicoe should 
visit the various Dominions to in- 
quire into their naval arrangements 
and see how they could be improv- 
ed. It has been carefully announced 
that he comes only in an advisory 
capacity and that each Dominion 
is free to act on his advice or re- 
ject it. 

It was at one time reported from 
Australia that he had devised for 
that country a most ambitious and 
extensive programme, but later on 
the rumor was contradicted and it 
was stated that nothing had been 
definitely decided. However, dis- 
tinguished sailors and soldiers are 
never in the habit of being modest 
in their suggestions as to the ne- 
cessary minimum of armaments ; 
they have not to raise the money 
to pay for them and face angry 
electors afterwards. 

So we may take it for granted 
that Lord Jellicoe will put forward 
very general proposals for the ex- 
penditure of our money on a Can- 
adian Navy. We hope he has an 
opportunity of reading the speech 
last session of Mr. Duff, of Lunen- 
burg, on the exploits of the Can- 
adian Navy during the war. There 
will be powerful industrial interests 
straining all their 4 ‘ pull” and 
energy for an extensive naval pro- 
gramme. 

Lord Jellicoe is a very distinguish- 
ed sailor and any one who ventures 
to differ from his opinions will be 
derided as a traitor. But in order 
that he may not assume a position 
of complete infallibility in the 
popular eye, it may not be amiss to 
draw attention to some passages in 
the reminiscences of Sir Percy 
Scott, an equally distinguished 
sailor, who brings his story down 
to the Great War. “Why the Grand 
Fleet was not destroyed”, he gaily 
remarks, “I cannot imagine”. On 
his visit to Admiral Jellicoe, at 
Seapa Flow, early in the war, he 
found “a terrible state of affairs 
the fleet was unprotected. When I 
said 1 Good night’ to Lord Jelli- 
coe, I added * Shall we be here m 
the morning’. His laconic reply was 
‘T wonder”. Jellicoe ’s own book 
confirms this story by internal 
evidence and shows that the Ad- 
miral was never happy in his 
command. Yet he is now going to 
tackle a problem with which all 
j manner of political and financial 
considerations are mixed up. His 
report will be annoted with inter- 
est. 

Sir Henry Drayton and his col- 
leagues are at present in a high 
state of jubilation over the success 
of the Victory Loan which produc- 
ed $673,000,000, or more than twice 
the minimum amount sought. Put 
it was noticeable that almost half 


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of the total came from the two 
great financial (and profiteering) 
centres of Montreal and Toronto. 
Another feature was that by far 
the greater part of the subscriptions 
came from the financial houses, the 
manufacturers, the great middle- 
men and the leaisured plutocracy. 
Sir Joseph Flavelle, Bart., was able 
to take $350,000. 

The size of some of the subscrip- 
tions caused great astonishment 
and seemed to afford additional 
ground for the suspicion that our 
methods of taxation are at present 
a net from which escape is not dif- 
ficult. Certain it is that a long list 
of firms and individuals have on 
hand a volume of spare funds far 
exceeding what they w'ould have 
had if we had evolved four j'ears 
ago a drastic system of taxation 
on the British and American scale. 

Instead of taxing our richer classes 
to pay for the war, we are generous- 
ly borrowing their money from 
them at very profitable rates. But 
what shall now be said of Sir 
Thomas • White, our late Minister 
of Finance, who, in spite of advice 
to the contrary declared persistently 
that only by tax free bonds could 
a domestic Canadian loan be raised? 
Leading bankers and financiers 
thought his attitude foolish, but 
nothing could move him and he 
left office acclaimed as a great 
Minister. His successor had the 
courage to disregard his po-'.cy and 
make the last issue taxable with 
the result that his loan has been 
more successful than its predeces- 
sors. 

But thanks to Sir Thomas folly 
$1,700,000,000 worth of loans stand 
tax free and will gradually find 
their way into the hands of the 
richer clasess. It would be interest- 
ing to ascertain just exactly how 
much Sir Thomas’ wisdom has 
cost the Treasury. This revelation 
of his real capacity should make 
his return to politics impossible. 

J. A. S. 



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December 0th, 1919 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


CATHOLIC SCHOOL 
TEACHERS 


(Contributed by a French-Canadian Catholic.) 


T HERE is a train of powder in 
the epigram; the “bon-mot” 
is a two-edged sword that strikes 
ever at the vitals of whoever wields 
it in either knowing or unconscious 
error. 

When Marie Antoinette uttered 
her celebrated “bon-mot”, invit- 
ing the rabble of France to eat 
cake in default of bread, she little 
dreamed that she had struck the 
spark that was to light a flame of 
destruction from one end of her 
country to the other; she little 
thought that she herself had sprung 
the gleaming knife of the guillot- 
ine that brought her sad life to an 
ignominious end. 

Therein lies a lesson. But many 
are those who even in these enlight- 
ened days delight is basking in the 
reflected glory of their own wit — 
even as did the unfortunate Lady 
of Versailles. Among these is Judge 
Lafontaine, president of the Catho- 
lic Board of School Commission- 
ers. 

The writer had no idea of the 
great pungency of humor with 
which the goodness of fortune has 
blessed this learned jurist. In read- 
iug a report of a recent meeting of 
this Board, published in “The 
Gazette” of November 26, I have 
discovered that His Lordship has 
coined a number of sayings that 
will, without doubt, emblazon his 
name in history as a great man 
indeed. 

In speaking of his reason for 
refusing the common civility of 
receiving a delegation of the Catho- 
lic Teachers Welfare Association, 
Judge Lafontaine is reported in 
“The Gazette ,, as having said: 

“They wrote us at the last 
meeting ’, and we did not ack- 
nowledge the letter, because we 
did not want to recognize the 
association. Today they seek an 
interview with us merely for the 
creation of a precedent. These 
teachers have formed them- 
selves into a union, which is 
not compatible with their duties 
as public servants. They are 
preachers of anarchy, and it is 
very easy to see it. Have they 
not sent us a contract which 
they intend to impose? Do they 
not suggest amendments to the 
provincial statutes governing 
the schools? If we tolerate that, 
they pass over our heads and 
the board loses all authority. 
That is the quickest way to 
bolshevism. See what happen- 
ed in Russia! For a quarter of a 
century, school teachers were 
allowed to preach socialism. ” 

As one who is keenly appreciat- 
ive of humor, wherever it may be 
found — be it unconscious or not — 
I cannot but congratulate the learn- 
ed Judge of the quintessence of 


wit, not to mention Christian 
spirit, which he manifested on that 
occasion. However in the back of 
my mind, I have a slinking suspi- 
cion that the Judge was not speak- 
ing entirely in merry jest when he 
spoke of “teachers preaching anar- 
chy”. And therefore, as one who 
is supremely interested in the weal 
of our Canadian youth, I cannot do 
otherwise than express in unqual- 
ified terms my whole-hearted abo- 
mination of the odious insult which 
he has branded into the souls of 
those noble and oppressed men and 
women to whose care has been en- 
trusted the Catholic youth of this 
city. 

Anarchists and Bolsheviki! 

Shade of Laval ! of Cartier ! 
of Laurier ! Shades of all 
those mighty spirits whose labors 
have brought Canada out of the 
trackless wilderness into the full 
fruition of nationhood! Have all 
their efforts to establish in Can- 
ada an educational system second 
to none in the world come to this? 

If the allegation of Judge Lafon- 
taine were true, then indeed have 
the Catholic parents of Montreal 
and of the Dominion cause to trem- 
ble. If the destinies of thousands of 
young lives are entrusted to men 
and women who ideals are those 
Reddism and revolutionary Anar- 
chy, then indeed is the future of 
Church and State alike undermin- 
ed; and well would the parents be 
justified should they rise in their 
wrath and hang on the highest 
gibbet any puny Board of men 
responsible for conditions which 
have sowed such doctrines in the 
minds and hearts of the teachers. 

But Judge Lafontaine knows that 
the Catholic teachers of Montreal 
are not teachers of Anarchy. He 
knows that they do not want to 
pave the way to Bolshevism. And 
he knew when he spoke th:>se seai- 
iug words that the Catholic teach- 
ers of Montreal did not want to 
control the School Board, lie knew 
when l.e referred to “whit happen- 
ed in Russia” that he was smear- 
ing mire on the moulders of the 
mind and genius of Montreal’s 
children. He knew, when, in filibust- 
ering tones he said that “rather 
than hear the teachers he would 
take his hat and coat and leave the 
room”, he was denying to the teach- 
ers the same measure of common 
civility that he would give to any 
other public* body in the city. Yet, 
full knowing all these things, he 
denied to the teachers of Montreal 
that elemental justice and common 
Christian charity which he would 
have us believe is so near to his 
heart. 

The Catholic teachers of Mon- 
treal are not preaching anarchy nor 
trying to lead the world to Bolshe- 
vism. Perhaps nowhere in Canada 


are there men and women more 
whole-heartedly devoted to inculc- 
ating in the plastic minds of our 
youth those lofty principles that 
make for soundness of national 
character. Hundreds of them, inspir- 
ed by a true devotion to the cause 
of education, have turned away 
their eyes from other walks of life 
in which their abilities would 
doubtedless lead them to ease and 
comfort, if not indeed, affluence. 
And the services they have render- 
ed the great and powerful men of 
to-day, the services they are now 
rendering the children of these men, 
are as countless as the leaves in 
autumn. The real wealth given the 
country by these unotrusive dis- 
ciples of the greatest of all Teach- 
ers, cannot be reckoned in mere 
paltriness of dollars, or of millions 
of dollars. 

And yet these men and women 
must stand the cruel gaff of actual 
poverty — even the pinch of misery, 
while the authorized representa- 
tive of the people, their debtors, 
sits back in his easy chair and hurls 
stinging epithets about “teachers 
of anarchy”. 

On© would think that the prin- 
cipal thing Judge Lafontaine holds 
against the teachers is the unfor- 
tunate circumstance that they are 
occasionally afflicted with a de- 
praved desire to eat. As no one could 
possibly suggest that the learned 
jurist has ever been guilty of such 
levity, it is quite understandable 
how reprehensible this failing must 
seem in the eyes of His Lordship. 

The Catholics of Montreal are 
perfectly willing that the teachers 
of their children shall be fed, cloth- 
ed and sheltered in a manner ade- 
quate to the station in society 
which they hold. If the funds of 
the Catholic School Board are in- 
sufficient to furnish at least a de- 
cent livelihood to its employees, the 
Catholics of Montreal are entirely 
willing to dig down in their jeans 
and try in some measure to pay the 
immense debt which they and past 
generations owe to the teaching 
profession. 

As a member of the Catholic 
Church, the writer knows that as 
a body it bears on enmity toward 
one of its most important and most 
devoted units. When Judge Lafon- 
taine refused to hear the teachers, 
he was not reflecting either the 
desires or the Christian spirit of 
either its heads or its members. 
The Catholics of Montreal realize 
fully that injustice is being done 
the teachers and if the Teachers 
Welfare Association can in any 
way lighten the burden under 
which they are laboring — why, good 
luck to it. 

For the special benefit of Judge 
Lafontaine and the Board generally, 
as well as those who are interested 
in what one of the most avowedly 
fervent Catholic organs in Canada 
thinks of the teachers and their 
case, I quote and extract from “Le 
Devoir”: 

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we hear nothing but talk of 
reconstruction and reorganization. 
And the necessity for the future 
progress, as well as the pecuniary 
sacrifice that will be exacted, are 
not forgotten 

“The money question is again to 
the fore, and permeates throughout 
the whole subject of our educational 
system. Whether we speak of the teach- 
ing staffs of the primary schools, or 
of the professariat of the university, 
the problem is the same. In order to 
assure even sufficient recruits to the 
profession, it is necessary to main- 
tain salaries at a level that will pro- 
tect the teachers against the exigen- 
cies of life, that will assure them 
against the future. 

“Rev. Father Lamarche, speaking 
the other evening, stated that even 
in the highest educational circles, the 
great harrowing question was always 
that of the dollar. Many young pro 
fessors are obliged to abandon their 
chairs in the universities, because of 
the impossibility of providing ado 
quately for their families.” 

If Judge Lafontaine was merely 
indulging his wit when he spoke of 
‘Anarchy” and ‘Bolshevism’ it may 
be pointed out that smartness in 
high station sometimes veraps itself 
about a boomerang, — as has been 
already pointed out. If he was seriou s 
in his insult — an apology, or at least 
an explanation, is decidedly in order. 

The argument put forth at the 
meeting referred to, by Commission- 
er Perreault, that everyone is free 
to approach the Board, is one that 
will be upheld by every sane-think- 
ing man with an ounce of fairplay 
in his make-up. In Montreal, in the 
twentieth century, there is no place 
for that despotism of which Judge 
Lafontaine is such an able exponent. 
No freeman in this British Empire 
need have a mandate from any 
mortal being to approach even the 
mightiest. 

The free nations of the earth 
poured forth their brightest blood 
for four years that just this sort 
of tyranny may lie forever buried 
in the purple loam across the sea. 
Shall it be resurrected? 


Page 4 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


December 6th, 1919 


The Tariff Board 

(Continued from page 1.) 

ers Thus both the manufactur- 
er and the workman would 
benefit by the operation of the 
Board 

In next week’s issue we shall 
give further reasons in favor 
of the appointment of such an 
advisory board. It is very evid- 
ent from the resolutions that 
are pouring in from all parts 
of the Dominion that the senti- 
ment in favor of the establish- 
ment of this Board is exceed- 
ingly strong. It is quite appar- 
ent, at this time, that both the 
employee and the employer and 
even the general public are so- 
lidly supporting the idea. 

There is no parallel in the 
history of Canadian industrial- 
ism in which the great groups 
have come together in support 
of an idea of so far-reaching 
national and perhaps interna- 
tional importance. If we could 
all see eye to eye as we evid- 
ently have done on this vexa- 
tious problem, is it not a strong 
argument that we may vet be 
able to understand one an- 
other sufficiently well to 
grapple succesfully with all the 
great important problems 
which loom before us? 

It, after years and years of 
wrangling we have been able 
to meet on a common ground 
on the question of the establish- 
ment of a Tariff Board, where 
is the problem that we cannot 
solve in the common aim of all 
to build a wonderful, a peace- 
ful and happy Canada for all 
who are fortunate enough to 
come to our shores? 

Further organizations have 
debated the issue and seen fit 
to endorse strong resolutions 
in favor of the appointment of 
the Tariff Board, as follows: — 


Oper. Plasterers Inter. Ass’n, No. 
298, Hamilton, Ont. 

Painters L. P. Decorators, No. 
205, Hamilton, Ont. 

Joiners Stone Cutters of North 
America, Hamilton, Ont. 

Boot and Shoes Workers, No. 228 : 
Hamilton, Ont. 

Barbers Local Inter. Ass’n, No. 
131, Hamilton, Ont. 

United Association, No. 67, Ha- 
milton, Ont. 

Fed. Ass ’n of Letter Carriers, No.; 
3, Hamilton, Ont. 

Tobacco Workers Inter. Union, 
No. 48, Hamilton, Ont. 

Sheet Metal Workers, No. 61, 
Hamilton, Ont. 

United Garment Workers of 
America, No. 250, Hamilton, Ont. 

Broom and Whisk Makers Union, 
No. 9, Hamilton, Ont. 

Hamilton Civic Emp., No. 16208, 
Hamilton Ont. 


Inter. Moulders Union, No. 26, 
Hamilton, Ont. 

Amal. Society of Engineers, No. 
1183, St. Thomas, Ont. 

Inter. Ass hi of M., No. 20, Local 
No. 294, St. Thomas, Ont. 

O. of Railway Carmen Union. 
Div. 13, St. Thomas, Ont. 

Blacksmiths and helpers, No. 148, 
St. Thomas, Ont. 

Bro. of Ry. S. of America, No. 
27, St. Thomas, Ont. 

Bro. of Loco. Firemen and En- 
ginemen, No. 5, St. Thomas, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers, 
No. 280, Trenton, Ont. 

Bro. of Carpenters and Joiners 
of America, No. 1622, Trenton, Ont. 

Bro. Railway Carmen of Amer- 
ica, No. 353, Trenton, Ont. 

Inter. Ass hi of M., No. 834, 
Trenton, Ont. 

Inter. Moulders Union, No. 29, 
Brantford, Ont. 

Journeymen T. Union of Amer- 
ica, No. 117, Brantford, Ont. 

Brantford Printing Pressmen, No. 
195, Brantforl, Ont. 

Brantford Typo. Union, No. 378, 
Brantforch, Ont. 

Can. Bro. of Railway Emp., No. 
108, Brantford, Out. 

Boot and Shoe Workers Union, 
No. 136, Brantford, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Blacksmiths and 
helpers, No. 364, Brantford, Ont. 

Journeymen Barbers Union, No. 
298, Brantford, Ont. 

Cigar Makers Union, No. 59, 
Brantford, Ont. 

United Garment Workers of 
America, No. 237, Brantford, Ont. 

Telephone City Inter. Ass hi, No. 
607, Brantford, Ont. 

United Garment Workers, No. 
190, Windsor, Ont. 

Fed. Asshi of Letter Carriers, 
No. 16, Windsor, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers, 
No.* 151, Lindsay, Ont. 

Maintenance of Way Emp., No. 
189, Lindsay, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Papermakers, No. 
135, Sturgeon Falls, Ont. 

Inter. Ass’n of Machinists Vic 
toria, No. 211, Carleton Place, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Boilermakers I.S. 
B. and helpers of America, No. 325, 
Carleton Place, Ont. 

Inter. Union of Steam and Oper- 
ating Engineers, No. 753, Sudbury, 
Ont. 

Carpenters and F. of America, 
No. 267, Sudbury, Ont. 

O. of R. C. Frontier, Div. 189, 
Sarnia, Ont. 

Journeymen Barbers, No. 310. 
Guelph, Ont. 

Amal. Soicetv of Carpenters and 
Joiners, No. 2611, Guelph, Ont. 

Letter Carriers Ass’n, No. 18, 
Guelph, Ont. 

Inter. Mouders Union, No. 212, 
Guelph, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers, 
No. 447, Parry Sound, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers, 
No. 260, Schrieber, Ont. 

Bro. of Loco. Engineers, No. 562, 
Schrieber, Ont. 


Bricklayers and Masons, No. 17, 
Peterboro, Ont. 

Lift Lock Lodge, No. 435, Peter- 
boro, Ont. 

Inter. Moulders Union of North 
America No 191, Peterboro, Ont. 

Journeymen Tailors Union No.. 

25, Peterboro, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Electric Workers 
No. 261, Peterobro, Ont. 

Inter. Alliance Stage Emp. No. 
432, Peterboro, Ont. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America No 219, Peter- 
boro, Ont. 

Journeymen Stone Cutters of 
North America, Owen Sound, Ont. 

Inter. Moulders Union of North 
America No. 413, Owen Sound, Ont. 

Bro. of Ry. Carmen of America 
No. 631, Palmerston, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. No. 468, Palmerston, 
Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of R. R. Stationmen 
No. 182, Palmerston, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 502, Blenheim, Ont. 

Can. Ass’n of Stat. Enginemen 
No. 21, Chatham, Ont. 

Chatham Typo. Union No. 421, 
Chatham, Ont. 

Fed. Ass’n of Letter Carriers No. 

29, Chatham, Ont. 

United Garment Workers No. 44, 
Chatham, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 191, Chatham, Ont. 

Frontier Dist. Council United 
Bro. of Carp, and Joiners of Amer- 
ica, Tliorold, Ont. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America No. 1677, Thor- 
old, Ont. 

Pulp Sulphite and Paper Mill 
Workers No. 84, Thorold, Ont. 

Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers 
lilt. Union No. 21, Smiths Falls, 
Ont. 

Inter. Moulders Union No. 201, 
Smiths Falls, Ont. 

Waterloo Musical Society No. 
544, Waterloo, Ont. 

Bricklayers, A. F. of M., Masons 
and Plasterers Union No. 32, Wel- 
land, Ont. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America No. 969, Wel- 
land, Ont. 

Inter. Moulders Union No. 472, 
Welland, Ont. 

Midi. Cent. R. R. O. of R. Tel. 
No. 16, Welland, Ont. 

Amal. Society or Engineers No. 

1 192, Welland, Ont. 

Bricklayers Union No. 22, Wood- 
stock, Ont. 

Fed. Ass’n Letter Carriers No. : 
40, Brockville, Ont. 

Bro. of Ry. Stationmen No. 174, 
Gait, Ont. 

Journeymen Barbers Inter. Union J 
I of America No. 413, Galt, Ont. 

Amal. Society of Engineers No. 
1074, Galt, Ont. 

Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster 
ers Inter. Union No. 20, Oshawa, 
Ont. 

Bro. of Ry. Carmen of America 
No. 378, Chapleau, Ont. 

Bro. of Carpenters and Joiners | 
of America No. 1969, Grinsby and 
Beamsville, Ont. 


Inter. Ass’n of Machinists No. 

575, Allansdale, Ont. 

Amal. Society of Carpenters and 
Joiners No. 2654, Whitley, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Steam Shovel and 
Dredgemen No. 46, St. Mary’s Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 20, Port Hope, Ont. 

Inter. Moulders Union No. 189, 
Port Hope, Ont. 

Porcupine Miners Union, Timmins, 
Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 231, Jackfish, Ont. 

Maintenance of Way Emp. and 
Ry. Shop Laborers, Eagle River. 
Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 372, Milnet, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 211, Claremont, Ont. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners No. 1607, Orillia, Ont. 

Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster- 
ers Inter. Union No. 18, Orillia, 
Ont. 

O. of Railroad Conductors No. 
429, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. 

Inter. Longshoremen Ass’n No. 
199, Midland, Ont. 

Nat. Ass’n Marine Eng. No. 12, 
Midland, Ont. 

Bricklayers Union No. 2, Toronto. 

Inter. Bro. of Bricklayers and 
helpers No. 318, Toronto. 

Inter. Bro. of F. and Oilers No. 
300, Toronto. 

O. of Railway Carmen No. 531, 
Toronto. 

Bro. Railway Carmen of America 
No. 258, Toronto. 

Amal. Lethographers No. 12, To- 
ronto. 

Inter. Bro. of T. C. S. and help- 
ers No. 1991, Toronto 

Inter. Bro. of Boilermakers, Iron 
Ship Builders and helpers No. 63, 
Toronto. 

Inter. Moulders Union of North 
America No. 207, Toronto. 

Bakery and Confectionery Work- 
ers No. 181, Toronto. 

Inter. Bro. of S. and Dredgemen 
No. 54, Toronto. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America No. 27, Toronto. 

O. P. and C. F. Inter. Ass’n No. 
48, Toronto. 

Bro. of Ry. and S. Clerks F. H. 
E. and Station Emp. No. 493, To- 
ronto. 


Inter. Mouders Union No. 28, To- 
ronto. 

Inter. Bro. of S. Shovel and 
Dredgemen Nos. 46 and 54, Toron- 
to. 

Tobacco Workers No. 63, Toronto. 
London Stero. and Electro. Inter. 
Bro. No. 115, London. 

Amal. Society of Enginemem, 
London, Out. 

Inter. Ass’n of Machinists No. 
1127, Loudon, Ont. 

City Fire Fighters Union No. 142, 
London, Ont. 

Maintenance of Way Rv. Emp. 
No. 497, London, Ont. 

A. A. of Street and Electric Ry. 


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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


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Emp. of America No. 741, London, 
Out. 

Printing Pressmen and Assist- 
ants No. 173, London, Ont. 

Amal. Society of Carpenters and 
Joiners No. 1911, London, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Electrical Workers 
No. 120, London, Ont. 

The following list of unions en- 
dorsing the Tariff Board is reprint- 
ed from last week's issue: 


Nelson Trades and Labor Council. 


Peterboro Trades 
Council. 

and 

Labor 

Kingston Trades and 
cil. 

Labor 

Coun- 

Prince Albert (Sa9k.) Trades and 
Labor Council. 

Lethbridge Trades 
Council. 

and 

Labor 

Niagara Falls Trades and 
Council. 

Labor | 

Hamilton Trades 
Council. 

and 

Labor 

St. Thomas Trades 
Council. 

and 

Labor 

Trenton Trades and 
cil. 

Labor 

Coun- 

Brantford Trades 

and 

Labor 


Council. 

Allied Trades and Labor Council 
(Ottawa). 

Central Labor Council (Sarnia). 

St. John Trades and Labor Coun- 
cil. 

Pictou County Trades and Labor 
Council. 

Sydney Trades and Labor Coun- 
cil. 

Windsor and Essex County Trades 
and Labor Council. 

London Trades and Labor Coun- 

cil. 

Fredericton Trades and Labor 
Council. 

Montreal Trades and Labor Coun- 
cil. 

Bro. of Locomotive Engineers, 
No. 188, Stratford. 

Amal. Society of Engineers No. 
1186, Stratford. 

Boiler Makers and Iron Ship 

Builders No. 297, Stratford. 

Inter. Bro. of Blacksmiths and 

Helpers No. 92, Stratford. 

Canadian Bro. of By. Employees 
No. 37, North Bay. 

Bro. of Railway Carmen Ass'n 
No. 131, North Bay. 

Railroad Pipe Fitters No. 361, 
North Bay. 

Railway Carmen Employees No. 
192, North Bay. 

Order of Rv. Conductors No. 242, 
North Bay. 

Bro. of Boilermakers, Iron Ship 
Builders and Helpers of America 
No. 447, North Bay. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of Canada No. 398, St. 
Catharines. 

Iron Moulders Union No. 85, St. 
Catharines. 

Local Barbers Union No. 1, St. 
Catharines. 

Bro. of Painters and Paperhang- 
ers, St. Catharines. 

Metal Polishers Inter. Union No. 
97, St. Catharines. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America, St. Catharines. 

United Ass'n of Plumbers and 
Steam Fitters No. 244, St. Catha- 
rines. 


Bricklayers and Masons and 
Plasterers No. 4, St. Catharines. 

Iron Moulders Union of North 
America No. 249, Woodstock. 

Inter. Bro. of Railway Station- 
men No. 172, Woodstock. 

Typographical Union, Woodstock. 

Bricklayers, Masons, Plasterers 
Inter. Union No. 27, Niagara Falls. 

Inter. Union Steam Operating 
Engineers No. 232, Niagara Falls. 

Amalgamated Society of Car- 
penters and Joiners No. 2624, Nia- 
gara Falls. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America No. 713, Niagara 
Falls. 

Bro. of Locomotive Firemen and 
Enginemen No. 487, Niagara Falls. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Wav Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 83, Belleville, Ont. 

Inter. Ass'n of Machinists No. 
779, Belleville, Ont. 

Bricklayers, Masons and Plaster- 
ers Inter. Union No. 30, Belleville, 
Ont. 

Order of Ry. Conductors No. 623, 
Belleville, Ont. 

Collingwood Barbers' Union No. 
528, Collingwood. 

Inter. Ass’n of Machinists No. 
627, Collingwood. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners No. 1008, Collingwood. 

Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders 
and Helpers of America No. 343, 
Collingwood. 

Federated Ass’n of Letter Car- 
riers No. 20, Kitchener. 

Kitchener Musicians Protective 
Ass 'n No. 226, Kitchener. 

Bakers' Union No. 304, Kitchener. 

Boot and Shoe Workers' Union 
No. 206, Kitchener. 

Cigar Makers' Union No. 422, 
Kitchener, Ont. 

Inter. Bro. of Boilermakers No. 
604, Joliette, Que. 

Inter. Bro. of M. of Way Em- 
ployees No. t)2, Brandon, Man. 

Order of Ry. Conductors No. 463, 
Calgary. 

Leather Workers Inter. Union 
No. 10, Calgary. 

Painters and Dec. of America No. 
583, Calgary. 

Sheet Metal Workers No. 254, 
Calgary. 

Calgary Fire Fighters Federal 
Union No. 19, Calgary. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Emp. 
and Ry. Shop Laborers No. 161, Cai- 

gao^ 

Inter. Union of Brewery and 
Soft Drink Workers No. 124, Cal- 
gary- 

Stero. and Electrotypers No. 109, 
Calgary. 

Hotel and Restaurant Workers 
No. 474, Edmonton. 

Amal. Carpenters and Joiners No. 
2607, Edmonton. 

Bro. of Loco. Engineers No. 817, 
Edmonton. 

Bro. Masons and Plasterers Int. 
Union No. 2, Moose Jaw, Sask. 

Bro. of Loco. Engineers No. 832, 
Prince Albert, Sask. 

Bro. Railway Carmen of America 
No. 437, Humboldt, , Sask. 

Book Binders Union No. 188, 
Edmonton, Alta. 

Int. Alliance Theatrical Stage 
Employees No. 360, Edmonton, Alta. 


United Bro. of Maintenance of I 
Way Employees and Railway Shop 
Laborers No. 161, Calgary, Alta. 

Int. Tailors Union of America 
No. 194, Calgary, Alta. 

Journeymen Stone Cutters Ass'n 
of North America, Calgary, Alta. 

United Mine Workers of America 
No. 574, Lethbridge, Alta. 

Amalga. Ass'n of Street Railway 
No. 134, New Westminster, B.C. 

Co-operation Board of Bro., Pen- 
ticton, B.C. 

Telephone Operators Union No. 
77a, Vancouver, B.C. 

Order of Railway Conductors No. 
460, Nelson, B.C. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners No. 524, Nelson, B.C. 

Bro. of Railroad Trainmen No. 
144, Vancouver, B.C. 

Federal Labor Union No. 18, 
Moose Jaw, Sask. 

Bro. of Loco. Employees No. 818, 
Brandon, Man. 

Steam and Operating Engineers 
No. 650, Brandon, Man. 

Boiler Makers Lodge No. 378, 
Moncton, N.B. 

Can. Bro. of Railroad Employees 
No. 42, North Sydney, N.S. 

Painters, Decorators and Paper 
Hangers Union No. 626, Sydney, 
N.S. 

Eddy Local No. 35, Hull, Que. 

Int. Steam Engineers No. 593, 
Montreal, Que. 

United Bro. of Carpenters and 
Joiners of America No. 2612, Ha- 
milton, Ont. 

Int. Alliance Theatrical Stage 
Employees No. 257, Ottawa, Ont. 

Federal Ass'n of Letter Carriers 
No. 22, Peterboro, Ont. 

Typographical Union No. 248, 
Peterboro, Ont. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Em- 
ploVees and Railway Shop Labor- 
ers No. 495, Brantford, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Railway Stationmen 
No. 186, Sarnia, Ont. 

Bro. of Railway Carmen of Amer- 
ica No. 196, Windsor, Ont. 

Boot and Shoe Workers Union 
No. 206, Kitchener, Ont. 

Progress Carmen No. 22, Carleton 
Place, Ont. 

Conference of Masons, Bricklay- 
ers and Plasterers Int. Union, To- 
ronto, Ont. 

Bro. of Blacksmiths and Helpers 
No. 171, Trenton, Ont. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Emp. 
and Railway Shop Laborers No. 
502, Chatham, Ont. 

Int. Alliance of Machinists No. 
805, Lethbridge, Alta. 

Bricklayers and Masons No. 1, 
St. John, N.B. 

Federation of Musicians No. 566, 
Windsor, Ont. 

Amal. As 'n of Street and Electric 
No. *663, St. John, N.B. 

Printing Pressmen No. 176, Ha- 
milton, Ont. 

Mine, Mill and Smelters Union, 
Prince Rupert, B.C. 

Deep Sea Fishermen 's Union, 
Vancouver, B.C. 

Firemen Federal Union No. 13, 
Victoria, B.C. 

Telephone City, I. A. of M. No. 
607, Brantford, Ont. 

Bakery and C. Workers of Brant- 
ford No’. 187, Brantford, Ont. 


Amalgamated Sheet Metal Work- 
ers No. 47, Ottawa, Ont. 

Int. Alliance of Theatrical Stage 
Emp. and Moving Pictures of U.S. 
and Can., No. 95, Ottawa, Ont. 

Int. Union Strain and Operatic 
Emp. No. 473, Ottawa, Ont. 

Journeymen Barber Int. M. of 
America No. 704, Ottawa, Ont. 

„ Int. Steel and Copper Plate 
Printers Union of N. A. No. 6, Ot- 
tawa, Ont. 

Int. Ass’n Fire Fighters No. 162, 
Ottawa, Ont. 

United Workers Federal Labor 
Union No. 56, Ottawa, Ont. 

Ottawa District Council of Unit- 
ed Bro. of Carpenters and Joiners, 
Ottawa, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Electric Workers, 
No. 724, Ottawa, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Boilermakers, Iron 
Ship Builders and Helpers of Amer- 
ica No. 394, Ottawa, Ont. 

Civic Employees Federal Union 
No. 15, Ottawa, Ont. 

Can. Bro. of Railway Employees 
No. 77, Ottawa, Ont. 

Bro. of Carpenters No. 93, Otta- 
wa, Ont. 

United Garment Workers of 
America No. 278, Sarnia, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Boilermakers and 
Iron Shipbuilders of America No. 
539, Sarnia, Ont. 

Bro. of Railroad Trainmen No. 
227, Sarnia, Ont. 

Journeymen, Barbers Int. Union 
No. 467, Sarnia, Ont. 

Bricklayers, Masons and Plast- 
erers Int. Union No. 23, Sarnia, 
Ont. 

Bro. of Railway Carmen of Amer- 
ica No. 347, Port Arthur, Ont. 

Bro. Locomotives Engineers No. 
631, Port Arthur, Ont. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Em- 
ployees and Shop Laborers No. 172, 
Port Arthur, Ont. 

/United Ass'n Plumbers and Steam 
Fitters No. 387, Port Arthur, Ont. 

Silver Islet No. 593, Port Arthur, 
Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Pulp, Sulphite and 
Paper Mill Workers Union No. 40, 
Port Arthur, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Blacksmiths and 
Helpers No. 311, Fort William, Ont. 

United Bro. of Maintenance of 
Way Emp. and Ry. Shop Laborers 
No. 128, Fort William, Ont. 

Bro. of Ry. Carmen of America 
No. 361, Fort William, Ont. 

Amal. Ass'n of Street and Elec- 
tric Ry. Emp. of A. No. 698, Fort 
William, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Boilermakers No. 505, 
Fort William, Ont. 

Int. Longshoremen's Coal Handl- 
ers Ass'n No. 746, Fort William, 
Ont. 

Bro. of Railway Clerks No. 605, 
Fort William, Ont. 

Journeymen, Tailors Union of A. 
No. 263, Kingston, Ont. 

Plumbers and Steamfitters of the 
United Ass'n of U.S. and Can. No. 
221, Kingston, f Ont. 

Kingston Can. Typographical 
Union No. 204, Kingston, Ont. 

Toronto Patternmakers Ass'n, 
Kingston, Ont. 

Electricians No. 573, Kingston, 
Ont. 


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Glasgow, November 12. 


Unity is the watchword in indus- 
trial circles at present, and move- 
ments are afoot which, if success- 
full, will result in the -consummation 
of that object in the near future. 
Already the boiler-makers, ship- 
wrights and blacksmiths have link- 
ed up for the defence and safe- 
guarding of their wages and work- 
ing conditions, and this week has 
witnessed the conclusion of the bal- 
lot vote on amalgamation in the 
engineering and cognate trades. In 
all, seventeen trades unions have 
been voting for or against amal- 
gamation. 

It was pointed out on the ballot 
paper that the law insisted that, 
before the scheme could be effect- 
ed, at least 50 per cent, of the mem- 
bers of each society must vote, and 
that there ‘must be a majority in 
favor of not less than 20 per cent, 
of the members voting. Although 
the official figures have not yet 
been published, I learn from an 
official source that the necessary 
majority had been secured in six- 
teen of the seventeen societies 
affected. The exception was the 
Amalgamated Society of General 
Toolmakers, Engineers and Machin- 
ists. The members who voted in this 
society showed an overwhelming 
majority in favor of the proposed 
scheme, but it is believed that the 
aggregate vote just fell short of the 
requisite fifty per cent. 

While the ultimate aim of the 
trade unionists in many parts of 
the country is for one body, the 
present movements which are afoot 
contemplate the setting up of a gov- 
erning body, which might be called 
the Big Four. There will be four 
sections, namely, the Transport 
Workers, Shipyard Trades, Engin- 
eering Trades, and unskilled labor. 
The new society is to be known as 
the “ Amalgamated Engineering 
Union”, and will absorb the fol- 
lowing societies: Amalgamated So- 
ciety of Engineers, United Pattern- 
makers ’ Association, United King- 
dom Society of Amalgamated 
Smiths and Strikers, Amalgamated 
Society of General Toolmakers, 
Engineers and Machinists; Steam 
Engine Makers’ Society, Electrical 
Trades Unions, the Association of 
Engineering and Shipbuilding 
Draughtsmen, North of England 
Brass Moulders’ Trade and Benefit 
Society, East of Scotland Brass- 
founders’ Society, the National So- 
ciety of Brass Workers and Metal 
Mechanics, Associated Brassfound- 
ers, Turners, Fitters, Finishers and 
Coppersmiths ’ Society, Amalgamat- 
ed Instrument Makers’ Society, 
Amalgamated Society of Scale, 
Beam and Weighing Machine Mek- 
ers; North of England Brass Turn- 
ers, Fitters and Finishers’ Society, 
Dublin Brassfounders and Finish- 
ers’ Society, and the London United 
Brass Finishers’ Society. 


In the suggested rules, which will 
be considered at a subsequent Con- 
ference of Representatives, it is 
explained that at the end of June 
the combined membership was 468,- 
339, and the aggregate total funds 
£3,343,240. The proposal is to have 
four sections of members, including 
apprentices, and the contributions 
range from three pence to Is. 6d. 
per week. 

In the first instance, the execu- 
tive council, or governing body, is 
to consist of the seven members of 
the A.S.E. Executive, and one mem- 
ber of each of the amalgamated 
unions with a minimum member- 
ship of 10,000. The number and 
status of the full-time officials are 
to be determined by a Rules Com- 
mittee. The salary of the chairman 
of the executive is to be £450, with 
house, light and fuel; and full-time 
officials, £400. Provision is also 
made for the compensation of any 
officials who may prefer not to 
accept office under the new ar- 
rangements. 

Labor Gains. 

It is estimated that the Labor 
Party have made a net gain of 135 
seats in the Scottish Town Council 
elections, apart from gains in con- 
nection with the few Parish Coun- 


cil elections which have taken 
place. Including all the Labor mem- 
bers who continued in office, or 
were re-elected, it is understood 
that there are now not less than 
200 Laborists on Scottish Town 
Councils. The Labor Party are also 
putting forward a record number 
of candidates for election to the 
Parish and County Councils, the 
polls for which take place during 
the next month according to local 
arrangements. In Ayrshire, Lanark- 
shire, and Fifeshire many miners 
are being nominated as Labor can- 
didates and with the full support 
of their union. 

Aberdeen Trawlers. 

The prospects for a settlement 
of the Aberdeen fish trawling lock- 
out, which has now lasted for ten 
weeks, are much brighter this week 
than they have been since the un- 
fortunate dispute commenced. The 
deck-hands were in conference dis- 4 
cussing the situation, and the offi- 
cial news of the men’s union is 
that negotiations with the owners’ 
representatives are still in pro- 
gress, and an early settlement is 
probable. The owners have issued 
a statement of the earning of the 
crews, according to which they say 
Aberdeen men have very little 
cause of complaint, the engineers 
earning six guineas a week, second 
engineers £4 15s. 6d., firemen £4 
14s. 6d., and deck cooks £5 Is. 6d. 
The value of the vessels which have 
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1st September as a result of the 
dispute is two and a half millions 
sterling, and there is great priva- 
tion and suffering amongst many 
of the fishermen’s families, and 
many households have been almost 
completely denuded of furniture. 

Bricklayers ’ Dispute. 

At a mass meeting of steelwork- 
ers’ bricklayers it was agreed to 
continue the strike. Disappointment 
is keen amongst iron and steel work- 
ers over this announcement, as it 
was felt that the way had been 
paved for the early resumption of 
work. The bricklayers are deter- 
mined to hold out for more definite 
guarantees than are meanwhile pro 
mised, and the situation in the 
Lanarkshire iron and steel indus- 
tries must be viewed with alarm, 
as thousands of men are idle and 
there is fear that some of the 
works may close their gates and shut 
down for an indefinite period. 

Scottish Carters. 

The Scottish Horse and Motor- 
men ’s Association celebrated the 
21st anniversary of its formation 
in Glasgow. Under the presidency 
of Mr. Hugh Lyon, who has acted 
as general secretary of 19 years, 
100 guests, representing all the 
branches in Scotland, gathered at 
dinner. In outlining the history of 
the Association, Mr. Lyon said the 
membership had increased from the 
natal 500 to 16,000. The carter’s 
wages had been increased from 17s. 
to £3 Is. per week, and his hours 
reduced from 72 to 48, and these 
improvements had been effected 
with the aid of remarkably few 
strikes. During the evening, Mr. 
and Mrs. Lyon were presented with 
several articles of jewellery. 

Higher Wages 

By an award of a court of ar- 
bitration just issued, men employed 
in railway shops are to receive an 
advance of 5s. a week. The award 
is not to be taken into account as 
part of the time rates for the pur- 
pose of fixing new piecework or 
bonus rates. A similar advance has 
been made to heating and domestic 
engineers and to workers in the 
explosive trades. 

Joiners in the Clydesdale area of 
Lanarkshire have won an increase 
of Id. per hour, which brings their 
minimum up to Is. 9%d. an hour. 
Women hat and cap makers who 
struck for union recognition at 
Glasgow have won, the employers 
having agreed to recognize the 
Garment Workers’ Union. 

During the past month the mem- 
bership of the Scottish Farm serv- 
ants’ Union has increased by 
1,049. 

James Gibson. 


» 

A BEGINNING. — “Anyhow,” 
said the optimist, “we have made the 
Fourth of July safe and sane. 

“Yes,” replied the pessimist; 
c ‘ but there are three hundred and 
sixty-four other days in the year still 
to be looked after.” 

— Wa»ki»gto#M 


December 6th, 1919 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Page ? 


McGill University Professors 

Seriously Considering Entry Into 

Organized Labor Movement 

(Contributed.) 


It is a common expression especial- 
ly in certain circles, “ There ’s no dig- 
nity in labor unions”. Brute force 
and the mass has been the argument 
against the labor union. It is a far 
cry today from the lack of dignity 
charged to union organizations today 
and the union of professors of great 
universities. Not that I have never 
seen a college professor undignified al 
times, but the college professor as 0 
class is looked upon in the English 
speaking world as the standard of 
dignity, bishops excepted. 

It is indeed to be argued that the 
bishop is more dignified than tin 
professor because forsooth the college 
professor has already begun to iden- 
tify himself with the trade unior 
movement. I understand that some of 
the English universities have beer 
unionized long ago and today Harvard 
has a strong union among its pro 
fessors. It is possible that some of 
the cherished dignity went out the 
back door when the additional remu 
aeration made possible by the unior 
came, in the front door, but the pro 
fessors do not seem to be worrying 
much over their loss of dignity. 

So Harvard was among the first to 
accept the trade union among her pro- 
fessors. McGill University gives pro- 
mise to be next in line. Now some 
harsh things have been said about the 
union movement in professions. “ Pro- 
stitution of professions” has been a 
cry hurled against the movement on 
every possible occasion. The profes- 
sions seem to be willing to stoop to 
prostitution in order to secure a liv- 
ing wage, even if the charge held 
water — but it won’t. It is the one 
argument that is so leaky that it re- 
fuses to float for any length of time. 

Now there is a reason for the kind- 
ly feeling which many of the pro- 
fessors of McG'ill University have 
toward the idea of a union. Last 
spring, displaying a foresightedness 
almost prophetic, the University of 
Toronto adopted a new scale of wages 
for its professors. That did not 
please the professorial body of McGill, 
because the Montreal institution did 
not follow suit. I was informed of 
this by an irate professor of the home 
college whose very pores exuded the 
aroma of unionism. In the University 
of Toronto today there is not a single 
associate professor who is getting less 
than $4,000 a year. Perhaps the pro- 
fessor said “per annum”; they use 
those kinds of words; but any how 
“year” is the trade union term and 
so I ’ll use it. Now they ’re not getting 
that at McGill University, he said, and 
the McGill professors are somewhat 
envious of the Toronto scale of wages. 

Now. the prophetic ability of the 
governors of Toronto University may 
prove to have been a saving grace to 
them in the future, for at any rate 


they forestalled the idea of a union 
among their professors, which just 
about that time was looming large. 
I talked to three professors of McGill 
University and I received the same 
story from each. “It’s a fine idea 
for professors of any institution,” 
they said with accord. “It is the only 
thing under present conditions if we 
are going to be able to live,” they 
added. ‘ 1 There are milk cart drivers 
who make as much as some of us on 
the teaching staff,” one of them re- 
marked. “The reason is that the 
milk cart driver organized and we 
thought because we knew something 
about the ancients, the dead languages, 
the fourth dimension and these things, 
that we could stand on our own feet 
as individuals and get what was our 
due. Why, we argued, our very dig- 
nity would command for us much gold 
and fine linen. But did it? 

“The strong sentiment in favor of 
the organization of a union at McGill 
University answers the question”, he 
continued. 

“But don’t you think it would be 
undignified for professors to form 
a trade union?” I asked. 

“Bosh”, was his observation. 

“ But is it not a prostitution of one 
of the most learned of the professions 
to form a trade union?” I urged 
again. 

“Bosh, again”, was his reply. I 
began to see that he would have to be 
placed in the category of those who 
believed in trade unions. 1 ‘ We ’ve 
been working for honor and glory 
and tradition for generations”, he 
said, “and we’re coming to the deci- 
sion that hereafter we should do an 
odd job now and then for our 'fam- 
ilies and for ourselves.” 

I once had an idea that a profes- 
sorial chair represented about the 
zenith of one’s ambitions and that it 
was only the genius and the first 
cousin of genius who eventually got 
there. Once there one might look 
upon the table lands of successful 
industry below you and be amused at 
the somewhat puny efforts of a less 
learned world. I have found, how- 
ever, and a pet theory has been woe- 
fully smashed in the discovery, that 
a genuine, learned professor is not 
below accepting odd jobs on the side 
in order to augment his salary. Now, 
I don’t mean to convey to the reader 
that he spends his vacations in mow- 
ing lawns and clipping hedges, and 
his winter evenings in cleaning the 
furnace of his plumber, but he takes 
odd jobs on the side which will bring 
him in here five dollars, and there ten 
dollars to reinforce his pay cheque. 
It is seldom yeu hear of a carpenter 
or a plumber doing that. Of course, 
they’re organized and they have ruin- 
ed their dignity und prostituted their 


! better instincts, according to the en- J 
1 emies of trade unionism. 

1 “If we don’t get a union among 
1 the unorganized professors, not only 
of McGill but of other Canadian 
j universities as well ’ ’, said one McGill 
professor to me during the course of 
j a discussion of the matter, 1 ‘ we will 
have to leave the profession and get 
•apprenticed to some prosperous 
plumber or carpenter or bricklayer or 
mason or man of any other branch of 
organized labor. This is not a joke; 
it is a grim reality which becomes 
more grim every time we get our 
grocery bill or our butcher ’s account. ’ ’ i 

Analyzing the present situation, he \ 
said, “I am of the opinion that cap- 
ital has proved as short-sighted in 
the matter of a living wage to the 
middle class or white-collared class as 
it did in relation to the laborers. 
Labor organized and bound itself into 
unions when wage demands were re- 
fused. The white-collared class has 
been treated the same wqy and it 
will not be long before they are in 
the same condition, banded together 
in unions, with forces thrown into the 
field against capital and on the side 
of labor. The higher forms of educa- 
tion will be brought to the aid of 
labor. Organization will then lack 
nothing either in strength nor in edu- 
cation. ” 

Whether his analysis is correct or 
not each person can answer for him- 
self after reading the signs fo the 
times. Each one will construe the 
condition which he sees through his 
mental lens. The fact remains how- 
ever that a canvas of conditions at 
McGill University among the profes- 
sors would indicate that a strong 
union is contemplated and that it 


will not be long before this sort of 
thing is realized. When college pro- 
fessors, newspaper men, insurance 
men, and representatives of the white- 
collared workers are delegates to the 
Trades and .Labor Councils through- 
out this country and meet the labor 
of this country on equal terms, 1 
think it is safe to prophesy that labor 
and its aims will be understood as 
never before and that this will be the 
greatest antidote for the present un- 
rest and industrial chaos that this 
country has ever seen. 



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P RESS despatches show that the renewal of immigration 
is being initiated with the influx of a party of young 
women who are evidently intended to supply the very 
scarce market of domestic labor. That the handling of 
such labor in times past has proved a failure is admitted by 
those who have been studying the problem, and the old system 
of private agents who received a bonus for every woman thus 
launched into the Dominion has been condemned Recently two 
women representing the Imperial authorities have toured the 
country and have gone home and made their report. One fallacy 
they have exploded is that the Canadian domestic’s lot is a sort 
of parlor existence because so many labor-saving appliances are 
used. There is a hint that in former years the type of servant 
coming from overseas was not a very good one: but the ques- 
tion arises — Was it not rather the system which often made 
her a failure? Imagine the face of a girl from overseas who 
had a tiff with her mistress and received dismissal. Where 
would she go if she failed to secure another position before her 
slender means ran out? Even if such agencies exist, what 
strange girl would know how to ferret out in this city these soc- 
ieties that look after lone women ? 

The fact is, this immigration of women offers a moral as 
well as an economic problem, and it is one in which labor might 
interest itself from both standpoints. These girls appear, to 
have friends of the church immigration society and Y. W. C. A. 
type, but have they any friends in labor circles who are pre- 
pared to see that. they get a square deal as between mistress and 
maid? Our own opinion is that the chief reason why the dom- 
estic servant is so scarce today is because the mistress has failed 
to recognize that the relation is merely one of employer and em- 
ployed, and that when the task is completed, the girl is a free 
agent who has the right to control her own movements without 
asking if she may do this or that. Has any labor leader ever 
examined the “Confidential Register” of Montreal in relation 
to domestic servants? 


SljougljtB 3av (Hattaftiana 3n 
$Irp 0 iinmt Wilson a Wraaagp 


President Wilson on Tuesday of this week sent to Congress a message 
urging an extensive programme of reconstruction legislation, concerned ex - 
c usivety with the pressing problems of the moment in his country. 

Included in this message are definite declarations regarding unrest which 
are the more interesting because, while they come f rom a man who is holding/ 
no brief for labor as a class, but is considering the people of his nation as a 
whole, they are substantially the views of labor as repeatedly expressed. 

These presidential declarations are here recommended to the careful 
study of all Canadians, whose national problems of unrest arc somewhat 
similar to those existing across the border. They are particularly recommended 
to the careful study of that type of Canadian who fancies himself to be 
• ‘ a cut above” the “labor element”, who blames the labor movement for the 
unrest, and who thinks that the proper way to deal with the situation is to 
sneer at, or gag, or bludgeon the labor movement at every opportunity , in a 
broad public way or in his relations to the persons associated with him in his 
daily tasks. 

As a preface to this study, he should take an elementary course in the 
history and principles of trade unionism. The fact that he may be a learned 
man, in the ordinary sense of the term, is no indication whatever that lie has 
any clear perception of what unionism is and means to-day. Often he has a 
habit of disposing of unionism in a few stock phrases which were blasted by 
unionists some time ago, when women wore crinolines, and men wore side- 
whiskers, and the office boys whist ed “M ossa’s in de cold , cold ground”. 
He brings to the consideration of the labor movement a mental equipment of 
the sort he knows he dare not bring to the least important phase of his 
domestic or business affairs, lest the world write him down as an egotistical 
ass. 

He would come to realize how little he had known of the labor movement 
and how thoroughly his ignorance had been measured by unionists for years, 
often by very plain men .who had never had his advantages and his privileges 
for acquiring knowledge. His pride might be humbled, but his eyes would 
be opened. He would have come to understand what, in common parlance, 
he was up against, and he would be able to meet it humanly and with common 
sense, which is all that the labor movement ever really asked of his kind. 

One of his earliest and most important discoveries would be that the labor 
movement was not the cause of unrest, but only its great visible sign, its main 
articulation. What am extraordinary effect that discovery alone might have 
on him ! 

What is the other side of the story for the sneerer, the gagger, the blud- 
geoner, the stock-phraser, the sticker to these remarkable systems for allaying 
or controlling unrest? Do we not see it every day in strikes, fights, injustice, 
bitterness, hate? 

Do we not see that labor is already well on its way to securing what it 
desires in the name of human brotherhood , of applied Christianity? Is there 
not a rude awakening for all the obstructionists who fought it step by step 
from the vantage ground of place and privilege, yet whom it beat back step by 
step, and wlwm, if they continue in their ignorance and crassness, H will 
eventually destroy as factors of consequence in the community, as effectively 
as Hurnpty Dumpty was destroyed? Are the obstructionists in the Iasi 
citadels of obstructionist power going to wait till the labor movement, grow- 
ing stronger and more impatient every day, dictates to them on the threshold 
of their own homes? 

No b’oody revolution is necessary. The process will probably be quite 
orderly and constitutional, recorded in the ballot boxes of a free country by 
a free people. The power of the labor movement — a very broad term to-day 
is already so great that in the final tussle, if tussle there be, the only 
losers will be the type of Canadian referred to, still wallowing in his own 
stupendous ignorance, hanging on like grim death to his old ideas, wondering 
what the dfvi 1 has happened to his old power and influence, shocked beyond 
measure that the common people he despised and tried his best to thrash 
should be ordering him about as an incompetent and untrustivorthy relic of 
an old regime. 

His type is the real danger of to-day. He lives and moves in Montreal, 
throwing his little darts, blustering along, calm and unafraid. He even tells 
you of his wish to “smash unions”. He will talk of “starving labor to 
bring it to its senses”. How amusing, if not so pitifully tragic in relation 
to his own usefulness in the world, to his own ultimate happiness ! 

K. C. 


SOME 1 ‘UNREST” CLAUSES 

The following are amongst the 
principal “unrest” and “labor” 
clauses from President Wilson's 
message: 

“No one who has observed the 
march of events in the last year 
can fail to note the absolute need 
of a definite programme to bring about 
an improvement in the conditions 
of labor. There can be no settled 
conditions leading to increased pro- 
duction and a reduction in the cost 
of living if labor and capital are 
to be antagonistic instead of part- 
ners. 


“Sound thinking and an honest 
desire to serve the interests of the 
whole nation, as distinguished from 
the interests of a class, must be 
applied to the solution of this great 
and pressing problem. The failure 
of other nations to consider this 
matter in a vigorous way has pro- 
duced bitterness and jealousies and 
antagonisms, the food of radical- 
ism. The only way to keep men 
from agitating against grievances 
is to remove the grievances. 

“An unwillingness even to dis- 
cuss these matters produces only 
dissatisfaction and gives comfort 



December 6th, 1919 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


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to the extreme elements in our 
country which endeavor to stir up 
disturbances in order to provoke 
governments to embark on a course 
of retaliation and repression. The 
seed of revolution is repression. 
The remedy for these things must 
not be negative in character. It 
must be constructive. It must com- 
prehend the general interest. The 
real antidote for the unrest which 
manifests itself is not suppression, 
but a deep consideration of the 
wrongs that beset our national life 
and the application of a remedy. 

“Congress has already shown its 
willingness to deal with the indus- 
trial wrongs by establishing the 
eight-hour-day as the standard in 
every field of labor. It has sought 
to find a way to prevent child labor. 
Tt has served the whole country by 
leading the way in developing the 
means of preserving and safeguard- 
ing lives and health in dangerous 
industries. It must now help in the 
difficult task of finding a method 
that will bring about a genuine 
democratization of industry, based 
upon the full recognition of the 
right of those who work, in what- 
soever rank, to participate in some 
organic way in every decision 
which directly affects their wel* 
fare. 

Put House in order 

“The great unrest throughout the 
world, out of which has emerged a 
demand for an immediate consider- 
ation of the difficulties between 
capital and. labor, bids us put our 
own house in order. Frankly, there 
can be no permanent and lasting 
settlements between capital and 
labor which do not recognize the 
fundamental concepts for which 
labor has been struggling through 
the years. 

“The whole world gave recogni- 
tion and endorsement to these fund- 
amental purposes in the League of 
Nations. The statesmen gathered at 
Versailles recognized the fact that 
world stability could not be had by 
reverting to industrial standards 
and conditions against which the 
average workman of the world had 
revolted. 

”It is, therefore, the task of the 
statesmen of this new day of 
change and readjustment to recogn- 
ize world conditions and to seek 
to bring about, through legislation, 
conditions that will mean the ending 
of age-long antagonists between 
capital and labor and that will 
hopefully lead to the building up 
of a comradship w r hich will result 
not only in greater contentment 
among the mass of workmen, but 
also bring about a greater produc- 
tion and a greater prosperity to 
business itself. 

“To analyze the particulars in 
the demands of labor is to admit 
the justice of their complaint in 
many matters that lie at their 
basis. The workman demands an 
adequate wage, sufficient to permit 
him to live in comfort, unhampered 
by the fear of poverty and want in 
his old age. 

He demands the right to live and 
the right to work amidst sanitary 


surroundings, both in home and in 
workshop, surroundings that deve- 
lop and do not retard his own 
health and well-being; and the right 
to provide for his children’s wants 
in the matter of health and educa- 
tion. In other words, it is his desire 
to make the conditions of his life 
and the lives of those dear to him 
tolerable and easy to bear. 

Way to Industrial Peace 

*“The establishment of the prin- 
ciples regarding labor laid down in 
the Covenant of the League of 
Nations offers us the way to in- 
dustrial peace and conciliation. No 
other road lies open to us. 

“Not to pursue this one is longer 
to invite enmities, bitterness, and 
antagonism which in the end only 
lead to industrial and social disas- 
ter. The unwilling workman is not 
a profitable servant. An employee 
whose industrial life is hedged about 
by hard and unjust conditions, 
which he did not create and over 
which he has no control, lacks the 
fine spirit of enthusiasm and vo- 
lunteer effort which are the neces- 
sary ingredients of a great produc- 
ing entity. 

“Let us be frank about this 
solemn matter. The evidences of 
world wide unrest which manifest 
themselves in violence throughout 
the world bid us pause and consider 
the means to be found to stop the 
spread of this contagious thing be- 
fore it saps the vitality of the 
nation itself. 


Do we gain strength by withhold- 
ing the remedy? Or is it not the 
business of statesmen to treat these 
manifestations of unrest which 
meet us on every hand as evidences 
of an economic disorder and to ap- 
ply constructive remedies wherever 
necessary, being sure that in the 
application of the remedy w r e touch 
not the vital tissues of our industritl 
and economic life? There can be 
no recession of the tide of unrest 
until constructive instrumentalities 
are set up to stem that tide. 

Labor not Commodity. 

“Governments must recognize 
the right of men collectively to bar- 
gain for humane objects that have 
at their base the mutual protection 
and welfare of those engaged in all 
industries. Labor must not be longer 
tieated as a commodity. It must be 
regarded as the activity of human 
beings, possessed of deep yearnings 
and yearnings. The business man 
gives his best thought to the repair 
and replenishment of his machin- 
ery, so that its usefulness will not 
be impaired and its power to pro- 
duce may always be at its height 
and kept in full vigor and motion. 
No less regard ought to be paid to 
the human machine, which after all 
propels the machinery of the world 
and is the great dynamic force that 
lies back of all industry and pro- 
gress. 

“Return to the old standards of 
wage and industry in employment 
is unthinkable. The terrible tra- 


gedy of war which has just ended 
and which has brought the world to 
the verge of chaos and disaster 
would be in vain if there should 
ensue a return to the conditions o £ 
the past. 

“Europe, itself, whence has come 
the unrest which now holds the 
world is at bay, is an example of 
standpatism in these vital human 
matters which America might well 
accept as an example, not to be 
followed but studiously to be avoid- 
ed. Europe made labor the differ- 
ential, and the price of it all is 
enmity and antagonism and pros- 
trated industry. The right of labor 
to live in peace and comfort must 
be recognized by governments and 
America should be the first to lay 
the foundation stones upon which 
the industrial peace shall be built. 

Protect Capital as Well. 

“Laobr not only is entitled to an 
adequate wage, but capital should 
receive a reasonable return upon its 
inbestment. It is entitled to pro- 
tection at the hands of the Govern- 
ment in every emergency. No Gov- 
ernment worthy of the name can 
1 play ’ these elements against each 
other, for there is a mutuality of 
interest between them which the 
Government must seek to express 
and safeguard at all cost. 

“The right of individuals to strike 
is .inviolate and ought not to be 
interfered with by any process of 
Government, but there is a predo- 
minant right, and that is the right 
of the Government to protect all 
of its people and to assert its pow- 
er and majesty against the challenge 
of any class. The Government, when 
it asserts that right, seeks, not to 
antagonize a class, but simply to 
defend the right of the whole people 
as against the irreparable harm and 
injury that might be done by an 
attempt by any class to usurp that 
which only the Government has a 
right to exercise as a protection to 
all. ’ ’ 

X 

EFFICIENT TREATMENT. — 
“Do you guarantee results in your 
nerve treatment?” asked the Caller. 

“You bet I do,” replied the Spe- 
cialist. “Why, laot week a man came 
to me for nerve treatment and when 
I got through with him lie tried to 
borrow $500 from me.” 

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DANGEROUS ADVICE. —Curate. 
— “You should be careful! Don’t 
you know that drink is mankind \s 
worst enemy?” 

Jeems. — “Yes; but don’t you 
teach us to love our enemies.” 

— London “Opinion.” 

AN EXTREMELY LONG WAY.— 
“Does your cook try to make food 
go as far as possible?” 

“Yes; some of it all the way from 
our residence to hers.” 

— Washington “Star.” 

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The LACONIC DINER.— “Pear.” 

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December 6th, 1919 


WORKING PLAN FOR | 
LABOR AND CAPITAL 


Views Of Merchants’ Association Upon Big Problem. 


“In view of the detrimental in- 
fluence of these three features of 
.our industrial system, your commit- 
tee recommends: 

“1. The recognition by both em- 
ployers and employees that the de- 
termination to achieve national 
prosperity rather than to enforce 
maximum selfish returns should be 
the controlling motive in industry. 


STRONG REPORT MADE 


“The community, as such, has a 
right to insist that industry be car- 


The Merchants’ Association of, 
New York has adopted a strong 
declaration with regard to the rela- 
tions between labor and capital. 

The statement was presented to 
the Board of Directors at its last 
meeting by the International Com- 
mittee of The Association. 

The report, as unanimously ap- 
proved by the Directors, was as 
follows : 

“The Industrial Committee here- 
with presents its report on indus- 
trial relations, in accordance with 
your instructions. 

“Your Committee will not at- 
tempt to offer a complete solution 
of the problem of industrial rela- 
tions, but it is hoped that the re- 
port may be of value in stimulating 
employers to constant study and 
effort toward promoting in their 
individual plants measures based 
on justice and conducive of prosper- 
ity; and in assisting in arriving at 
helpful decisions in bringing about 
harmonious relations with employ- 
ees. 

“The change in fundamental in- 
dustrial relations will be a revolu- 
tion. With the proper thought and 
effort on the part of both employ- 
ers and employees improvement 
and advancement will be gradually 
made and progress will be success- 
ful in proportion to the interest and 
breadth of vision with which the 
problem is considered;. Each ad- 
vance will show' a goal more desir- 
able than that hitherto striven for. 
Care should be taken that each step 
is a real advance, not one w T hich 
will have to be retraced. Employ- 
ers must take the lead in the effort 
to apply sound principles to the 
improvement and advancement of 
industrial relations; much in the 
way of leadership is properly ex- 
pected of them. 

“This evolution is being retard- 
ed in part by three features of our 
industrial system, which are not 
compatible with satisfactory indus- 
trial relations: 

“1. The short-sighted determin- 
ation too often found on the part 
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ly to get maximum results without 
consideration by either of the in- 
terests of the other, or of the pub- 
lic, as the controlling motive in in- 
dustry. 

“This selfish determination of 
employers and employees has hither- 
to been recognized by society as 
entirely proper, yet it is fallacious 
because it is destructive of maxi- 
mum construction. 

“2. Lack of understanding and 
mutual confidence of employers 
and employees. 


“Suspicion and lack of a com- 
plete understanding of each element 
in industry of the just aims, aspir- 
ations and problems of all other 
elements make constructive cooper- 
ation impossible. • 

“3. The law of supply and de- 
mand as the determining factor in 
fixing wages and conditions of em- 
ployment. 

“Many of the results of this 
economic law are unfair and pre- 
judicial to the interests of both 
employers and employees, and are 
socially undesirable. 


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man relations can be solved upon 
the accepted basis that without 
national prosperity the permanent 
interests of parties to industry 
cannot be conserved; and that with 
such prosperity relations between 
employers and employees can be 
worked out with justice to both. 

“In its broadest aspect, employ- 
ers and employees unquestionably 
have a common interest, as it is only 
through the promotion of the inter- 
ests of both that the country and 
the industrial communities in it 
can enjoy permanent prosperity. 
The actions and demands of em- 
ployers and employees become un- 
warranted w r hen they handicap the 
industries of the nation in compe- 
tition with foreign industries. 

“2. The establishment of a re- 
cognized and permanent method of 
conference between the employer 
and his employees. 

“Conferences, at which all sub- 
jects of mutual interest may be 
presented, are essential to the de- 
velopment of understanding and 
mutual confidence. The mere will- 
ingness of an employer to meet 
employees who have grievances is 
not suffiicent. There should be a 
definite arrangement — satisfactory 
to both employers and employees — • 
w r hereby employees can collectively 
take up disputes or matters of com- 
mon interest with employers. 

“Your committee has no recom- 
mendation to make concerning the 
plan of conferences which should 
be established, except that when- 
ever plans of conferences are inau- 
gurated they should be worked out 
jointly by employer and employees, 
and. not prescribed by the employer. 
Conditions vary so in different in- 
dustries and plants that no one plan 
of conference can be adopted by 
all. The plan must be developed 
and adapted in each plant in the 
light of existing conditions. 

“The functions of the confer- 
ence and the determination of the 
proper subjects for consideration 
jnust be in each a matter of gradual 
development. Your Committee sug- 
gests, however, that the following 
matters should be immediately re- 
cognized as included in those which 
should be discussed in conference: 

“(a) Wages and working condi- 
tions, including steps to promote 
continuous and permanent employ- 
ment, especially in the case of in- 
troduction of new machinery and 
new processes. 

“(b) Plant conditions affecting 
health and general welfare of th£ 
workers. 

“3. The limitation of the econ- 
omic law of supply and demand as 
a basis of labor policy of 'the utili- 
zation of a more human doctrine. 

“Like this solution of the entire 
problem of industrial relations, the 
development of any definite human 
doctrine, which will modify and limit 
the economic law of supply and de- 
mand, will be a matter of evolu- 
tion. . Nevertheless, your Committee 
recommends the immediate reco- 
gnition 'of the following principles 
which will themselves modify the 
application of the law of supply 
and demand to a large degree, and 



December 6th, 1919 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Page 11 


are essential to the development of 
the human doctrine. 

“1. All wage earners, skilled and 
unskilled, in return for a fair day’s 
work, have a right to a living wage 
sufficient to ensure the workers 
and their families the opportunity 
to live in health and comfort in 
accord with the concepts and stand- 
ards of American life. 

“2. Continuity of employment at 
normal wages should be maintained 
up to a point where permanent 
prosperity and stability of the bu- 
siness — rather than immediate pro- 
fits — would be endangered there- 
by. 

“Recently much interest has been 
shown in plans of sharing in pro- 
fits and participation in manage- 
ment. Many of these plans are un- 
doubtedly valuable if properly de- 
veloped and given their proper 
place. They deserve the careful at- 
tention of employers. However, 
your Committee desires to point out 
that they are merely aids, not re- 
medies. Any plan, the introduction, 
continuation and final interpreta- 
tion of which rests solely upon the 
volition of the employer will not 
work, because it lacks the elements 
of .certainty and permanence and 
there is no power of enforcement 
on the part of the employees. 

“Any plan of profit sharing or 
participation in management to be 


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“In closing, your Committee 
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In approving the report the Di- 
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A NEAT WORKER.— “Father, 
please let me marry Jim. He’s so neat 
— why, when he was in France he got 
two medals for cleaning out dugouts 
and mopping up.” 

1 1 The American Legion Weekly . ’ ’ 
Chloe. — “I w r ould only marry a 
man who has lived and suffered.” 

George. — “I suppose what you 
want is a widower.” 

— London “Blighty.” 


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expert is declaring that 
shirt will come back soon, 
doesn’t know our laundry. 

— London “Opinion.” 


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A SQUARE DEAL. — Mail — “I 
want your opinion on a matter. Would 
you advise me to borrow $10 to help 
me out of a tight place?” 

Lawyer. — “By all means.” 

Man. — “Very good. Lend me 
ten.” 

Xawyer. — “That’s all right. My 
fee foT legal advice is ten dollars and 
we’ll call it square 


HOW IT HAPPENED. — Ser- 
geant: “Why haven’t you shaved 
this morning?” 

Private, rubbing his face in great 
surprise: “Ain’t I shaved?” 

Sergeant : “No, you ’re not. I want 
to know why.” 

Private: “Well, you see, there was 
a dozen of us using the same mirror, 
and I guess I must have shaved some 
other man.” 

— “The American Legion Weekly.” 


TOO COMMON PHENOMENA.— 
A medical paper advances the theory 
that “man is slightly taller in the 
morning than he is in the evening. ’ ' 
We have never tested this, but we 
have certainly noticed a tendency to 
become 1 1 short ’ ’ towards the end of 
the month. 

“Books of To-day and To morrow.” 


..A NOT-USUAL CASE.—“ Here’s 
a Southern poet singing that while his 
body is in Texas, his soul is in Ten- 
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“Well, he’s not the first poet who 
has had trouble in keeping body and 
soul together.” 

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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


December 6th, 1919 


THE TARIFF BOARD 

(Continued from page 5) 
Kingston Painters and Paper 
Hangers No. 114, Kingston, Ont. 

Carpenters and Joiners of A., 
Kingston, Ont. 

Int. Bro. of Blacksmiths and 
Helpers, Kingston, Ont. 

Amalgamated Society of Engin- 
eers No. 1173, Kingston, Ont. 

Federal Labor Union No. 15,959, j 
Kingston, Ont. 

• Paving Cutters Union of ]J. S. A. 
and Can. No. 65, Gananoque, Ont. 

Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of 
North America No. 4, Gananoque, 
Ont. 

Can. Ass’n Stationary Engineers 
No. 31, Stratford, Ont. 

United Ass’n of Plumbers and | 
Steamfitters No. 742, Stratford, 
Ont. 

Stratford Typographical Union 
No. 139, Stratford, Ont. 

United Ass’n of Plumbers and 

Steamfitters No. 488, Edmonto, 
Alta. 

Amal. Ass’n of Street Electric 

Steamfitters No. 488, Edmonton. ! 
Alta. 

Bro. of Loco. Engineers No. 817, 
Edmonton, Alta. 

Amal. Society of Carpenters and 
Joiners No. 2607, Edmonton, Alta. 

Bro. of Railway Carmen No. 448, 
W. Edm inton, Alta. 

Inter. Ass’n of Machinists No. 

559, W. Edmonton, Alta. 

Bro. of Railway Carmen of Amer- 
ica No. 117, Edmonton, Alta. 

Operating Plasters and Cement 
Finishers Inter. Ass’n No. 372, Ed- 
monton, Alta. 

Inter. Bro. of Steam, Edmonton, 
Alta. ^ 

Inter. Bro. of S. S. and D. M. 
Auxiliary Local No. 75, Edmonton, 
Alta. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Emp. 
No. 198, Airdrie, Alta. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Emp. 
No. 254, Ardley, Alta. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Emp. 
No. 256, Ecksville, Alta. 

United Mine Workers of Amer- 

ica No. 2163, Blairmore, Alta. 

United Mine Workers of Amer- 

ica No. 29, Bankhead, Alta. 

Bro. of Railway Carmen of 
America, Comet Lodge No. 289, 

Lethbridge, Alta. 

Plumbers and Steamfitters No. 
221, Medicine Hat, Alta. 

United Bro. of M. of Way Emp. 
No. 256, Stettler, Alta. 

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T HE article I wrote for the issue 
of Nov. 22, on the Empire 
Press Conference, roused much in- 
terest in journalistic circles and 
circles more or less closely con- 
cerned with journalism. Requests 
for copies of the “Railroader” 
have been amongst the indications 
of this interest. Although what is 
estimated to be adequate provision 
for follow-up demands for the 
paper is always made, and although 
in this case extra copies had already 
been distributed in quarters in Can- 
ada, Britain and elsewhere where 
interest was liable to develop, not 
a single spare copy of the issue is 
left, a state of things which occurr- 
ed only once before. I cite the cir- 
cumstance as a tribute to the im- 
portance of the subject, and not at 
all to my personal part in it as a 
journalist or as first vice-president 
of the Newswriters’ Union of Mon- 
treal. 

Doubtless some of the papers were 
wanted for the purpose of shooting 
holes in the article, and preparatory, 
perhaps, to an effort at scattering 
the author across the American 
Continent in such tiny pieces that 
it would be hopeless to try to re- 
assemble him, but I am satisfied 


that the main purpose of the article j 
was achieved — to obtain a ruling 
on this proposition: 

(1) If the Empire Press confer- 
ence (organized by the Empire 
Press Union, primarily an organiza- 
tion of publishers), to be held in 
Canada next year, is to be a confer- 
ence of the Empire’s journalists, 
as some propaganda matter might 
lead the ordinary observer to sup- 
pose, should not Canadian journal- 
ists be informed and consulted in- 
stead of being left in the dark? 

(2) If it is to be a conference of 
publishers and their special repre- 
sentatives, should it not be declar- 
ed as such, especially as quite an 
army of journalists would object to 
publishers speaking for journalists 
in the broad name of journalists 
aud journalism? 

Since my article appeared the 
following item has been “played 
up” in the “Montreal Daily Star” 
of Nov. 28: 

“Toronto, November 28. — 
At the meeting of the Canadian 
Press Association of all Can- 
ada held here to-day enthusiasm 
was displayed in the projected 
visit to Canada of the leading 


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publishers of the British Em- 
pire including men at the helm 
of the great newspapers known 
to the English-speaking world. 
Lord Atholstan, of Montreal, 
was unanimously chosen as 
chairman of the general and 
executive committees to organ- 
ize and carry out the arrange- 
ments which are to be on an 
extensive scale with a view to 
gaining for the Dominion a 
wider knowledge on the part 
of the Imperial press as to in- 
dustries, scenery, soil, senti- 
ments of the people and oppor- 
tunities for British people 
settling in a country under the 
British Flag. The other mem- 
bers of the executive commit- 
tee are J. E. Atkinson, P. D. 
Ross and W. J. Taylor, president 
of the Canadian Press Associa- 
tion.” 

(The Canadian Press Association 
is an excellent organization almost 
exclusively concerned with the 
affairs and viewpoints of publish- 
ers as distinguished from the af- 
fairs and • viewpoints of journal- 
ists.) 

The air is cleared. I take it that 
this and other recent announce- 
ments in the “Star” along the 
same line are official, and official 
disclaimers of the notion that the 
conference will be held in the name 
of the journalists of the British 
Empire, when it will really be held 
in the name of the publishers of 
the British Empire, which is not 
the same thing. 

Incidentally, 1 am sure — as sure 
as I am of sunrise — that some of the 
publishers attending that confer- 
ence will speak reasonably and 
kindly of the newswriters’ union 
movement, if the matter comes up 
for discussion, which is quite like- 
ly. I am equally sure that all jour- 
nalists in the movement, and all 
their friends and allies in the ranks 
of organized labor, will look reason- 
ably and kindly on them for doing 
so. But for sheer advertising value 
to the movement, recommend me to 
the publisher who sets out to land 
a terrific wallop on it! 

# # # 

WORLD PRESS CONFERENCE 

A N aftermath of the discussion 
about the Empire Press Con- 
ference is a mass of words coming 
to me in varied forms about a 
World Press Conference to be held 
in Australia in the fall of next 
year. 

It has the ear-marks of being a 
publishers’ conference, though I 
am not positive of its identity. All 
I know is that many Canadian and 
American journalists have heard 
nothing about it in any direct way, 
and .that a point is being made of 
the fact that its date will allow 
visitors to the Empire Conference 
of publishers to go on from Canada 
to Australia to “take it in”. I 
understand that Mr. Walter Wil- 
liams, Dean of the School of Jour- 
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souri, is official organizer. Dean 
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December 6th, 1919 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Page 13 


through various circumstances, and 
he might even rake up a remem- 
brance of me if he tried very hard. 
I have a deep-seated liking and 
respect for him, and I know he is 
not the type to do any camouflag- 
ing, even if that were possible 
amongst the ‘ 1 Show me” men from 
Missouri. 

# * * 

Mr. FRANK MORRISON 


THE THINKER 


By BERTON BRALEY. 


( This poem , which appeared in the issue of August 2, is republished by 
request. It attracted a good deal of attention in Canada , and has been re- 
produced in several publications , including a very fine reproduction, from the 
printing point of view , in the November issue of “The Thinker 9 9 , a magazine 
issued by The Mortimer Co., printers, of Ottawa. A copy of the reproduction 
has been framed to hang in a place of honor in the Railroader office.) 


G O to it ! It is a great work ! 

Good luck! We are right with 
you!” These are the condensed sen- 
timents of Frank Morrison, secre- 
tary of the American Federation 
of Labor, in referring to the news- 
writers 9 union movement, and as 
expressed to me in a talk I had 
with him at the Windsor Hotel, 
last week. Mr. Morrison was a busy 
man during his brief stay here. His 
mission was to find out if Montreal 
would be a suitable place to hold 
next year’s convention of the A. 
F. of L., now representing appro- 
ximately 4,000,0000 hand and brain 
workers on the American Continent. 
Despite expert assistances carried 
along with him, and a good deal 
supplied locally, he * never had a 
minute to himself. The girls in the 
hotel exchange must have been 
glad when he vacated his suite and 
the hotel manager probably looked 
ruefully at the path trodden on the 
carpets by the constant stream of 
visitors. 


Back of the heating hammer 
By which the steel is wrought, 
Back of the workshop’s clamor 
The seeker may find the Thought, 
The Thought that is ever master 
Of iron and steam and steel. 

That rises above disaster 
And tramples it under heel! 

The drudge may fret and tinker 
Or labor with lusty blows, 

But back of him stands the Thinker, 
The clear-eyed man who Knows; 
For into each plough or sabre, 

Each piece and part and whole. 
Must go the Brains of Labor, 

Which give the work a soul! 

Back of the motors humming 
Back of the belts that sing, 

Back of the hammers drumming, 


Being an old printer and a vice- 
president of the International Typo- 
graphical Union, with which the 
various newswriters’ unions on this 
continent are allied, he wanted to 
get some 1 ‘local color” on the 
Montreal Newswriters’ Union, meet- 
ing a number of officers and mem- 
bers of the union. I had no less than 
an hour and a half with him, and 
many points were dealt with, in- 
cluding a lot of “ shop talk” that 
would not be of special interest to 
“Railroader” readers, and which 
I need not refer to here. 

He said that he had a personal 
interest in the movement to union- 
ize the men and women in the 
editorial departments of the Amer- 
ican Continent. As long ago as 
1897, in Norfolk, Virginia, he had 
started to encourage journalists 
there to get together in a union. 
“The men complained to me of 
their low wages and disagreeable 


Back of the cranes that swing, 

There is the eye which scans them 
Watching through stress and strain. 
There is the mind which scans them — 
Back of the Brawn, the Brain! 

Might of the roaring boiler, 

Force of the engine’s thrust. 

Strength of the sweating toiler, 

Greatly in these we trust. 

But back of them stands the schemer. 
The Thinker who drives things through: 
Back of the Job — the Dreamer 
Who’s making the dream come true! 


conditions of work. They said that 
the printers were better off — but 
of course they had a union! I said 
that the moral was obvious, but I 
could not induce them to see it at 
that time. They wanted improve- 


Until You Are Using 


ments and deserved them; they 
knew how the printers had obtain- 
ed them; yet they were not willing 
to gras’p the effective method they 
saw operating under their own 
eyes 9 9 . 

It was nonsense to say, continued 
Mr. Morrison, that unionized news- 
writers were trying to control the 
policies of newspapers. They sought 


to control their own lives, their 
wages and working conditions and 
so forth, and they had an indisput- 
able right to do that. They wanted 
self-expression, and that was their 
right. They were free citizens in a 
free country. 

There was no doubt that many 
able and educated men and women 
in the newspaper offices of the 
country were not getting the return 
in wages and conditions that they 
had a right to expect. He was glad 
that they were coming into the 
union movement. There was much 
hope for them and much to hope 
from them. 

Mr. Morrison said that efforts 
made to break newswriters’ unions 
by offering better wages and con- 
ditions to newspaper men and wo- 
men on condition that they left the 
unions were almost amusing to him, 
with his long experience of union- 
ism. They were a visible sign that 
unions were worth while. The game 
was as old as trade unionism itself, 
and it seldom worked. He doubted 
if it would work with men and wo- 
men of the intelligence of news- 
paper workers. 

There was nothing to be afraid of, 
he considered, in any effort - to 
“smash a union” by any means. 
Men and women of character would 
stick to their principles; the hard- 
er you tried to pull them off, espe- 
cially by unfair means, even if 
chocolate-coated, the harder they 
would stick. He doubted if any 
serious attempt would be made to 
interfere with newswriters unions, 
whatever bluff might be made, but 
even if there were, the I.T.U. and 
the A.F. of L. would be right be- 
hind these unions in their effort 
to combat oppression, persecution 
or discrimination. 

The movement had got off to a 
good start, in Montreal and else- 
where. He thought it was a move- 
ment of great importance and signi- 
ficance, with all the signs of spread- 
ing much further. Efforts to min- 
imize it were futile. The I.T.U. was 
watching it closely and giving the 
counsel of its long experience to it. 

“Tell the members of the News- 
writers’ Union of Montreal to go 
right on ’ ’, he said in conclusion. 
“They have done very well indeed 
so far, as might have been expected 
of men and women of their type. 
Give them my best wishes and 
hearty encouragement for their ef- 
forts. Tejl them that I am heart 
and soul with them”. 



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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


December 6th, 1913 


The Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada 


Its Only Aim Is The Welfare of The Masses. 


The people of a nation cannot advance beyond the men who make its 
laws, and the Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada exists to see 
to it that the workers by hand and brain are directly represented in the 
law-making bodies of the Dominion; to find, train and elect the right men 
of our own class in order to secure the kind of legislation that will proteci 
and advance the interests of the workers. 

It will wage warfare on plutocracy, despotism, economic privileges, 
and upon all the evil forces which burden the people and rob them of that 
happiness of living which is their fundamental right. 

It is a non-partisan educational and political association, and because 
of the manner in which it is organized can never become the instrument 
or plaything of a small group of any class, particularly of wealthy men 
The aim is the attainment of true democracy. 


WE PLEDGE OURSELVES:— 

To support all municipal, provincial and federal educational plans 
where the evident purpose is to raise the standard of education in en- 
lightened and progfresfeive ways; to present truthfully and fearlessly 
through the medium of Fifth Sunday Meetings and our own press, the 
* 1 Canadian Railroader 1 \ the latest and most important political, social and 
industrial developments ; 

To advocate the abolition of property qualifications for the franchise 
or for election to public office; the adoption of the Initiative, Referendum 
and Recall, and of proportional representation in all forms of public 
government; universal suffrage for both sexes, on the basis of one person, 
one vote; the transfer of taxes from improvements, and all products of 
labor, to land values, incomes and inheritances; 

To advocate prison reform, including introduction of the honor and 
segregation systems, and abolition of contract labor; the enactment and 
rigid enforcement of child labor laws; pensions for mothers with dependent 
children; regulation of immigration to prevent lowering of industrial, poli- 
tical or social standards; development of the postal savings and parcel post 
systems; financial and other assistance to farmers through . co-operative 
lanks and by other means; government development of co-operative pro- 
ducing and trading associations for the benefit of the consumer; 

To advocate extension of workmen’s housing schemes and the labor 
bureau system; provision of technical education for every willing worker, 
according to his capacities; more effective inspection of buildings, factories, 
workshops and mines; minimum wages; a rest period of not less than a day 
and a half per week for every worker; government insurance of workers 
against sickness, injury and death; maternity benefits and old-age pensions; 
better Workmen’s Compensation Acts; representation of the workers on air 
public boards and on boards for the supervision of private enterprises; 
union labor conditions in all government work; adequate pensions and op- 
portunities for soldiers and their dependents; 

To advocate freedom of speech and of the press, and a law compelling 
all newspapers and periodicals to publish in all issues a complete list of 
shareholders and bondholders. 

“The Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada” is financed en- 
tirely by its members who contribute $2 a year in membership fees. If a 
local has been established in your city $1 remains in the local treasury and 
the other dollar is sent by the local organization to our Dominion Head 
quarters, 60 Dandurand Building, Montreal, Que. In case no local has been 
established in your community, send the membership fee of $2 directly to 
Dominion Headquarters. 

The funds accumulating in the Dominion Headquarters are used for 
political and educational propaganda; the development of the organization; 
the preparation of pamphlets and leaflets and the financing of the various 
political campaigns where favorable opportunities develop, to elect our 
candidates. The treasurer is under bond and the books are audited by a 
firm of accountants. 


An application blank will be found below Merely fill out the applica 
tion blank, buy a postal order for $2 and send it to Dominion Headquarters. 
Your membership card will be forwarded by return mail. Join this great 
organization in the interests of education and clean politics. Today is the 
day and this is the hour. Become a member now. 


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APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP 


To the Secretary, 

The Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada, 

General Headquarters, 60 Dandurand Building, 
MONTREAL, Que. 

I hereby make application for membership in “The Fifth Sunday 
Meeting Association of Canada.” I subscribe and agree to pay, 
while a member, the yearly fee of $2.00 in advance. 

Name 


Date 


City. 


Amount paid $ Address + 


Province 

Make all cheques and money orders payable to il The Fifth 
Sunday Meeting Association of Canada .” 

Official membership card will be mailed from headquarters , 
with copy of platform , constitution and general rules. 


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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


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